a solid square carved open to the sky On the Greek island of Serifos, Athens-based MOLD Architects shapes its M Residence around seven open-air courtyards carved into a square volume. From above, the terracotta-colored home looks almost like a diagram. Its flat roof is punctured by irregular openings, revealing planted gardens and shaded passages…
Tbilisi, Georgia, is in the middle of a quiet building boom. Tbilisi City Hall is tearing down the Rike Tubes by Fuksas Studio to make way for new development. Gensler is designing Trump Tower Tbilisi, which will be the “tallest building in Georgia.” Add a masterplan by Stefano Boeri Architetti to the list. Boeri was…
Affordability is the number one issue facing voters this midterm, per a recent report by Pew Research Center. Climate ranked thirteenth. (Healthcare, immigration, AI, and other issues were in between.) In New York City, ballot proposals aim to simplify building permitting, accelerate street safety projects, and tackle more architecture and urban design issues, as reported…
Philip M. Lovell was an American naturopath who, from the pulpit of an advice column in the Los Angeles Times, advocated for a lifestyle that included exercise, nudism, sunbathing, and vegetarianism. He believed architecture could be a tool for health, and to make his point he commissioned a steel-framed home from architect Richard Neutra on a hilltop site above…
Chilean studio Paralelo Transversal has designed a rectangular house with a large hip roof and a terrace that cantilevers over a ravine in Puerto Varas, Chile. Completed in 2025 on a 1.2-acre site near Lago Llanquihue, the 155-square-metre house, known as Casa Ensenada, was oriented around its roof. Drawings and photography Previous Next Drawings and…
AD—WO, led by Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood, has been commissioned to reimagine Pittsburgh’s Heinz Architectural Center. “The design emerged from a genuine synergy between our experimental practice and the museum’s commitment to interdisciplinarity across its curatorial department,” said Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood, AD—WO cofounders, in a statement. An incubator for architectural knowledge, the…
IMAGINING AN ARCHITECTURE BEYOND THE HUMAN As a child, whenever I woke from one of those recurring nightmares that haunt the little ones, I would close my eyes again and imagine myself as a bee asleep with its wet nose nestled among the pistils of a flower; a young bird huddled against its siblings…
Architecture studio Biome Environmental Solutions has used a hill-like roof covered in local stone and walls of compressed earth bricks to conceal this eco-resort within its site in India. Named Gamaya Farms, the resort is located in the town of Vikarabad, near Hyderabad and has a total built area of 854 square metres. Drawings and…
Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has revealed plans to overhaul a former factory on an industrial site in Tbilisi, Georgia, and add a series of colourful housing blocks alongside it. The studio recently won the competition to design the Loco Park masterplan, which will add housing, green spaces and community spaces to the Georgian capital. Aiming…
ryue nishizawa designs landfill observation platform in japan Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa, co-founder of SANAA with Kazuyo Sejima, creates an observation platform at Oono Development’s managed landfill. Part of Final Disposal Site – A Landscape Created by Nature, Industry, and People, the installation invites visitors into a working industrial landscape and makes a normally…